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His Holiness Pope Francis has donated USD $500,000 to migrants in Mexico attempting to cross into the United States. These funds come from the Peter Pence Fund of the Catholic Church, which was set up to “provide the Holy Father with the financial means to respond to those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease.”

Indigenous Pataxo men carry their weapons during the Free Land Camp protest in Brasilia on Friday, April 26. The march protests the rollbacks of indigenous land and rights under Bolsonaro. Photo: AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Thousands of indigenous Brazilians took to the streets of the nation’s capital, Brasilia, on Friday as part of the three-day Free Land Camp, an annual movement for indigenous land and cultural rights.

Julian Assange pictured on a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017. Assange was arrested on Thursday by London police after Ecuador ended his 7-year asylum. Photo: AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Fil.

Ecuador ended the asylum of Julian Assange on Thursday after a seven-year stay at the country’s embassy in London. Local police were called to arrest the WikiLeaks founder and remove him from the embassy.

Since 2012, Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. On Thursday, after Ecuador revoked his asylum status, his contentious seven-year stay at the government building came to an end.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil recently called for the military to commemorate the 1964 coup d’État that ousted President João Goulart and replaced him with a military dictatorship that would last until 1985.

Since the beginning of 2019, thousands of factory stoppages have occurred In Mexico as workers in border cities protest for higher wages. On Thursday, hundreds of Coca-Cola workers protested at a major bottling plant near the Mexican border with Texas.

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are set to spend three days in Cuba, as part of their Caribbean tour which includes visits to Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Cayman Islands.

President Iván Duque of Colombia objected to six of the 159 articles of the Peace Accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and has returned the Accord to Congress for adjustment, citing “reasons of inconvenience.”

Juan Guaidó, contested Interim President of Venezuela, has returned to Venezuela after visiting Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Ecuador to garner support and to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela.

A demonstrator waves a green handkerchief at an abortion rights protest outside the Argentine National Congress in Buenos Aires. Photo: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters via The Washington Post.

An 11-year-old rape survivor was forced to give birth by C-section at 23 weeks pregnant after requests for an abortion were stalled by authorities and medical professionals for over five weeks. The baby is not expected to survive.